Meet the Season for Caring agency: Any Baby Can

Liliana De La Paz, mother and husband Juan Martínez Domínguez with their children Jesus, 2, and Juan Diego, 9 in their Austin home.Erich Schlegel/For American-Statesman

Each year, Season for Caring partners with local nonprofit agencies and invites them to nominated up to three families. Any Baby Can is one of our longest partnerships.

Any Baby Can strengthens parents and their children through in-home therapies, resource navigation and family support services. Its services are provided through home-visitation programs, community classes and support groups.

Some of the groups it serves are children with developmental delays, children with hearing loss, children with chronic illness, children with cancer, mothers with postpartum depression, first-time pregnant moms, parents wanting to learn parenting skills and more.

This year, Any Baby Can nominated the Martínez De La Paz family. Both 9-year-old Juan Diego and 2-year-old Jesús have spinal muscular atrophy type 2. Their life expectancy is 20 and Juan Diego is now using a wheelchair and a ventilator. Read more about this family here .